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In the year 2004, time travel has become a reality, bringing with it new law enforcement problems when miscreants start manipulating the past to their own ends. In the hands of genre specialist Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, Running Scared, 2010, Narrow Margin), Timecop is a further cut above, a cleverly plotted violent variation on Back To The Future. JCVD is clearly on a quest for world domination, and the production values of his films have been continually improving. Predictably enough, she gets gratuitously murdered in the first 15 minutes, and her embittered husband spends much of the rest of the film glowering and meting out punishment. Ever since Kickboxer established the Brussel sprout as the latest in a long line of vertically challenged action heroes, those cast as his nearest and dearest have had a short life expectancy, giving him the revenge impetus that drives him, karate kicking, through the plot. I say unfortunate because, cast as Van DammeвЂ™s wife she is not long for the world, or the screen.

вЂњZer is nevair enuv tam,вЂќ says JCVD to the unfortunate Mia Sara. Starring Jean Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara) ( Nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at this siteвЂ™s Best of 1994 Awards).TIMECOP (Directed by Peter Hyams. A film sequel was later made as the video-released Timecop: The Berlin Decision (2003) starring Jason Scott Lee.

Ron silver timecop series#

The series was okay but was cancelled in mid-season due to schizophrenic scheduling.

Ron silver timecop tv#

The film was spun out into a short-lived tv series Timecop (1997-8), starring T.W. He also produced the appealing Famous Monsters team-up The Monster Squad (1987).

Ron silver timecop movie#

Timecop was directed by Peter Hyams who has a strong association with genre with the likes of Capricorn One (1978) about a faked Mars mission Outland (1981), an action film set on JupiterвЂ™s moon Io the 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) sequel 2010 (1984) Stay Tuned (1992) about people trapped in a Hell of tv shows the monster movie The Relic (1997) the Biblical End Times action film End of Days (1999) and the Ray Bradbury adaptation A Sound of Thunder (2005) about dinosaurs and time travel. Ron Silver, as always, plays well, doing a good variation on his frequently wheeled out yuppie villain characterisation. (In the quibbles department, one kept wondering what happened to the high-speed vehicles and all the excess velocity that suddenly vanished when people went through the time barrier). Screenwriter Mark Verheiden, a comic-book writer who also wrote same holiday seasonвЂ™s The Mask (1994) and later a producer/writer on tvвЂ™s excellent revival of Battlestar Galactica (2003-9) and a number of other shows including Smallville (2001-11), Heroes (2006-10), Constantine (2015) and Daredevil (2015-8), makes the script work exceedingly well and exceedingly consistently. Jean-Claude Van Damme as timecop Max Walker The most effective of these are those that centre around the time editing, like when Jean-Claude Van Damme returns from the past to find the TEC operation all but disbanded, his best friend not knowing him, McComb ahead in the Senatorial race and there no record of his fellow agent and, most intriguingly, the ending where Van Damme returns home to his wife and a son, to a life of ten years that he has never lived. The plot has an ingenious number of twists. In fact, the script did not need to be sold as an action vehicle вЂ“ although one supposes that that is the way films have to be promoted these days. Categories Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Significant roles To be added Quotes Please add some quotes from this performer about their work in Dark Horse movies Others like you also viewed Timecop (film) R.I.P.D. The film has its requisite level of martial arts punch-ups but the action element never gets in the way of the sharp and intelligent script. The late Ron Silver portrayed Aaron McComb in Timecop. And, although Jean-Claude Van Damme and the word acting should never be used in the same sentence, Timecop perhaps comes the closest he has come to doing so yet. In some places, Timecop was being billed as Jean-Claude Van DammeвЂ™s first stab at serious acting. To some surprise, Timecop is more than that вЂ“ in fact, one might say it is for Jean-Claude Van Damme what The Terminator (1984) was for Arnold Schwarzenegger, allowing the action star to immerse his persona inside a tightly plotted vehicle.

Perhaps it was the Jean-Cluade Van Damme name above the title on the poster but one went into Timecop with little in the way of expectations, assuming that it would merely be a mindless action vehicle that involved Van Damme throwing his feet about in previous historical eras.